Melina Rodriguez

Melina Rodriguez was a Party for Socialism and Liberation activist. On 10 February 2017, she spoke to the Los Angeles Socialist Forum on the Flint, Michigan water crisis and "environmental racism", telling her socialist audience how capitalists chose to reroute water pipes to chemically-infected water to save money. Rodriguez stated that 41% of Flint's population lived below the poverty line, with the majority being African-American and "brown".